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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that the growing space for industrial policies, at least in its present form and shape, is unlikely to promote sustainable development in most Global South countries, especially in the smaller economies. This claim builds on those who have thought about structural transformations for and from the Global South throughout ...
Nicolás M. Perrone
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Prospecting, Expanding, Restoring: Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene
This special issue on Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene explores the extractive machinery of late liberalism through the prism of law. Our introduction outlines the stakes and complexities of theorising extractivism and situates the contributions ...
Birrell, K, Clark, M, Dehm, J
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, 2021 In Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador, Thea Riofrancos examines how conflicting visions of resource extraction have divided the Ecuadorian Left, focusing particularly on the struggles between the Ecuadorian ...
Chen, Sibo
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Conservation narratives in Peru: envisioning biodiversity in sustainable development
Ecology and Society, 2016 In the mega-diverse country Peru, a resource intensive development model collides with the interest of conserving biodiversity. Peruvian biodiversity experts have developed different lines of argumentation as to how to integrate conservation into the ...
Yves M. Zinngrebe
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
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Extractivism and Global Social Change
This chapter focuses on the concept of extractivism as an analytical device to understand multiple aspects of global social change. This review examines the core characteristics of extractivism as an analytical concept, its historical trajectories, and ...
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The Visual Politics of Extractivism
, 2023 This chapter draws on empirical research conducted in Argentina to explore the visual politics of extractivism in Latin America. In Argentina, extractivism is symbolically sustained by a visual regime that intertwines narratives of nature, tradition and ...
Serafini, P
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
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Alternativas al modelo extractivista: El territorio en re‑existencia del Chocó Andino
L'Ordinaire des AmériquesThe extractivist model is imposed in Ecuador, as in Latin America, under pressure from the Washington Consensus, the Commodities Consensus, the Beijing Consensus and the decarbonization consensus.
Álvaro Sanchez Roble
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